I found this for sale around me and I was wondering how rare it is. I've seen one that drives around town with a color matched welding bed on it too.

It's a factory F250 with the dually rear end and a 6.9 IDI. I've looked around and All I've found is that it's called Ford centurion f250 and was made for an in-bed camper.

 

centurions and roll a long were pretty classy in the day.
they arent rare per se.

in that time trucks were still pretty basic, the platinum and king ranch were many evolutions away.
many trucks of that era did not even have a/c.
after sale customizers stepped in to offer the "king ranch" of that time.
this what you are looking at; a customized ford, offering , sometimes, something ford factory did not offer by mixing and matching ford parts to build a rig ford didnt offer from its factories.
like a super cab 1 ton or this dually f250.

king henry II whose reign at ford threw a long shadow didnt care much for the pickup sector beyond the half ton work truck. he saw it as necessary, and practical. his daddy loved trucks . ford built some of the finest heavy trucks on earth, but king henry I was a farm boy and his roots ran deep into the midwestern soil.


there are quite a few of these now- battered clunkers still "rolling-a-long up here in oregon.
used and abused, now on farms and in the woods as logging crummies or sitting behind shops or barns with a blown engine

 

I would not call it rare there were crap loads of them made and were quite common back in the day around here.

In terms of survivors they are not common and maybe even rare.
Most of the trucks out fitted as such were used and worked and most have long since been used up and scrapped.

It is the stuff like this that was built for commercial or seen a lot of commercial applications that end up becoming rare over the decades as these were revenue generators and it is was not working it was not making money so they tended to get worked till they were completely worn out, then scrapped.

Unlike uncle Bob's truck that got used occasionally and was then parked in the back 40 when he got a new truck.

So finding these trucks today in reasonably salvageable condition is rare.
Think of it like bread vans lots were made but almost none exist today compared to what was manufactured. And the ones that are still around unrestored most all are pretty much beyond reasonable economic salvage.

 

the identification tag in the door frame has it marked as factory option not just aftermarket modification from the few I've seen like it

 

we sold them new through the dealers as an option or enhancement kind of like selling a rig outfitted with warn winch, but it was not a ford product.
centurian was a michigan based outfit now deceased, and i do not remember roll a longs home base, california maybe?

like earth roamer is today .


the only rare" version is the 4 door bronco. or what eventually became the ford suburban
expedition, excursion or whatever

 

No dually f250's from the factory. Are you saying the GVWR on the tag is as high as a factory f350 dually?

 

No F250 was available with DRW (Dual Rear Wheels). What is this marked "factory option" printed on the Certification Label (glued to the left door face below the latch)?

 

the marked tag is likely the upfitter tag required by law or was when changing components that might render the factory tag info inaccurate.
i know u know that. having worked for king henry as did i.
i have a f350 c&c from canada with a marked tag on the door too. truck was a service truck in the oil fields

 

Not rare and not factory.
The sticker is from the Aftermarket conversion company
It does NOT have the 10,000gvw that a F350 dually has
I would bet it has spacers in the rear and spacers in the front
I already see the fenders are aftermarket